Entry Level Cyber Security Advisor Jobs
New grad cyber security advisor jobs welcome recent graduates and entry level candidates with zero to two years of experience, where a strong portfolio or internship work can matter more than a long resume. Most openings mix on-site, remote, and hybrid settings across Technology & Software, Automotive, and Accounting & Auditing, with employers like Deloitte, Valeo, and CNH Industrial hiring at this level now.
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Responsibilities
About the Team
The USDS FUSE Intelligence program is an all-hazards team that develops products and services with action-based outcomes to reduce and identify risk to TikTok USDS JV. As a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate will be responsible for managing the triage, escalation, and reporting of threats against our US business and users that emanate from multiple sources, including internal, external and the deep and dark web.
About the Role
The candidate will effectively fuse their knowledge of the general threat landscape, the USDS business, and cyber threat intelligence sources to generate data driven, action oriented intelligence for stakeholders. The candidate will possess strong skills in research and investigative techniques to develop tailored cyber threat intelligence products. Strong candidates will also possess threat hunting and AI enabled investigations and development skills. This role will require close collaboration with internal Cyber, Financial Crimes, Payments, Legal, other USDS security teams, and various business departments. The candidate must also demonstrate strong intelligence writing and communication skills, contribute to cross-functional teams on a global scale, engage in response actions across various security disciplines, excel in a fast-paced and ambiguous work environment, and share pertinent information as needed to support the company's critical business, market strategy, and operational infrastructure requirements. Additionally, as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate must be able to effectively monitor a variety of tools including SIEM, case management, premium intelligence, OSINT, and social media/dark web intelligence sources to perform alert review, triage and escalations. The candidate should be able to enhance processes by obtaining a high level of proficiency with collection platforms, tuning alerts, and automating tasks. The candidate must also be able to create and develop threat intelligence reports which outline findings and risk to business stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Key contributor to threat intelligence monitoring, alert triage, escalation, and monthly reporting
- Maintain and tune data flows within a Threat Intelligence Monitoring Platform
- Develop automations to enhance intelligence collection and processing including use of AI/LLM enhancements where appropriate or possible
- Identify and further develop current intelligence sources, collection requirements, and reporting processes
- Provide timely escalations and reports with recommended mitigation strategies for business partners
- Contribute CTI intelligence resources to interdisciplinary intelligence reporting, including cyber threat intelligence, converged risk, protective intelligence, criminal intelligence, and influence operations discovery.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, information security, privacy, risk, compliance, project management or like discipline from an accredited college or university or measurable knowledge/experience from proven industry, military, defense, or government operations.
- Experience with cyber threat intelligence or threat monitoring, in a security or intelligence role within a global enterprise or intelligence vendor
- Understanding of basic CTI team operations in conjunction with a SOC, Incident Response team, Red Team, Threat Hunting, Threat Detection, or other core CTI stakeholders.
- Firm grasp of CTI analytic methodologies, tooling, and approaches to conducting threat actor analysis, TTP assessments, and contributing to detection engineering processes.
- Experience authoring intelligence products, having a clear grasp of the intelligence lifecycle, and ability to integrate intelligence into security workflows.
- Familiarity with using AI for triage, research or automation.
- Ability to leverage well-honed research expertise for all-source monitoring, to include social-media and dark web sources.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with SQL and any one general purpose language for developing automation.
- Understanding or experience working with log sources from various sources, security devices, web applications and infrastructure.
- Experience with threat hunting techniques and methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills along with teamwork and collaboration abilities on global and multi-functional teams with different intelligence source groups. Experience creating and disseminating reports to multi-level audiences in a technical environment
- Knowledge of cyber intelligence data sources and platforms while demonstrating time management and prioritization skills. Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance in an enterprise environment
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually)
- Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $106920 - $242820 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
Responsibilities
About the Team
The USDS FUSE Intelligence program is an all-hazards team that develops products and services with action-based outcomes to reduce and identify risk to TikTok USDS JV. As a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate will be responsible for managing the triage, escalation, and reporting of threats against our US business and users that emanate from multiple sources, including internal, external and the deep and dark web.
About the Role
The candidate will effectively fuse their knowledge of the general threat landscape, the USDS business, and cyber threat intelligence sources to generate data driven, action oriented intelligence for stakeholders. The candidate will possess strong skills in research and investigative techniques to develop tailored cyber threat intelligence products. Strong candidates will also possess threat hunting and AI enabled investigations and development skills. This role will require close collaboration with internal Cyber, Financial Crimes, Payments, Legal, other USDS security teams, and various business departments. The candidate must also demonstrate strong intelligence writing and communication skills, contribute to cross-functional teams on a global scale, engage in response actions across various security disciplines, excel in a fast-paced and ambiguous work environment, and share pertinent information as needed to support the company's critical business, market strategy, and operational infrastructure requirements. Additionally, as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate must be able to effectively monitor a variety of tools including SIEM, case management, premium intelligence, OSINT, and social media/dark web intelligence sources to perform alert review, triage and escalations. The candidate should be able to enhance processes by obtaining a high level of proficiency with collection platforms, tuning alerts, and automating tasks. The candidate must also be able to create and develop threat intelligence reports which outline findings and risk to business stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Key contributor to threat intelligence monitoring, alert triage, escalation, and monthly reporting
- Maintain and tune data flows within a Threat Intelligence Monitoring Platform
- Develop automations to enhance intelligence collection and processing including use of AI/LLM enhancements where appropriate or possible
- Identify and further develop current intelligence sources, collection requirements, and reporting processes
- Provide timely escalations and reports with recommended mitigation strategies for business partners
- Contribute CTI intelligence resources to interdisciplinary intelligence reporting, including cyber threat intelligence, converged risk, protective intelligence, criminal intelligence, and influence operations discovery.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, information security, privacy, risk, compliance, project management or like discipline from an accredited college or university or measurable knowledge/experience from proven industry, military, defense, or government operations.
- Experience with cyber threat intelligence or threat monitoring, in a security or intelligence role within a global enterprise or intelligence vendor
- Understanding of basic CTI team operations in conjunction with a SOC, Incident Response team, Red Team, Threat Hunting, Threat Detection, or other core CTI stakeholders.
- Firm grasp of CTI analytic methodologies, tooling, and approaches to conducting threat actor analysis, TTP assessments, and contributing to detection engineering processes.
- Experience authoring intelligence products, having a clear grasp of the intelligence lifecycle, and ability to integrate intelligence into security workflows.
- Familiarity with using AI for triage, research or automation.
- Ability to leverage well-honed research expertise for all-source monitoring, to include social-media and dark web sources.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with SQL and any one general purpose language for developing automation.
- Understanding or experience working with log sources from various sources, security devices, web applications and infrastructure.
- Experience with threat hunting techniques and methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills along with teamwork and collaboration abilities on global and multi-functional teams with different intelligence source groups. Experience creating and disseminating reports to multi-level audiences in a technical environment
- Knowledge of cyber intelligence data sources and platforms while demonstrating time management and prioritization skills. Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance in an enterprise environment
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually)
- Washington, DC The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $106920 - $242820 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
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Entry Level Cyber Security Advisor Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level cyber security advisor job?
Start by earning a recognized certification such as CompTIA Security+ or Certified Ethical Hacker, which signals foundational knowledge to employers even without years of experience. Pair that with hands-on work: a home lab, a capture-the-flag competition, or a college internship all demonstrate practical skill. Tailor your resume to each posting, highlight any exposure to risk assessment or compliance frameworks, and apply consistently to roles that explicitly welcome junior or new grad candidates.
Which companies hire entry level cyber security advisors?
Companies hiring entry level cyber security advisors right now include Deloitte, Valeo, and CNH Industrial, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring comes from a wide range of organizations, including federal contractors, managed security service providers, consulting firms, and large enterprises building out their security advisory teams.
Are there remote entry level cyber security advisor jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by employer and role type. About 38% of entry level cyber security advisor openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the field's strong compatibility with distributed work. Many employers offer hybrid arrangements that combine on-site client or team meetings with remote advisory work, which can be a good fit for new grads who want flexibility while building professional relationships.
Are these new grad cyber security advisor jobs?
Yes, this page includes new grad, recent graduate, and junior cyber security advisor roles alongside other entry level listings. A posting is typically new grad friendly when it welcomes zero to two years of experience, accepts internships or academic projects as qualifications, or explicitly invites candidates without a long work history. If a listing mentions a portfolio, lab experience, or coursework, that is a strong signal it is open to new grad applicants.
Which industries hire the most entry level cyber security advisors?
Entry Level cyber security advisor roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Automotive, and Accounting & Auditing, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at the entry level because they face high volumes of sensitive data, regulatory compliance requirements, or evolving threat environments that require dedicated advisory support even from candidates who are earlier in their careers.